The director of the Serious Fraud Office, Lisa Osofsky, announced in February that the agency was discontinuing two investigations into high-profile British companies – Rolls-Royce and GlaxoSmithKline. CDR examines the market reaction to the decision.

Part I of the LASPO review occupied most of the headlines and the vast majority of the comment from a consumer standpoint, to which the Ministry of Justice reserved most of its attention, with both the Bar Council and the Law Society reserving a mixture of outright criticism and hesitant praise.

Over 100 barristers will celebrate their silk appointments in March 2019. CDR looks at some of those appointed at the commercial side of the referral profession, with Brick Court Chambers’ barristers prominent.

With the appointment of 108 new silks, 2019’s crop of advocates will be sworn in at Westminster Hall as Her Majesty’s Counsel, learned in the law. Four of them will be solicitor-advocates, nearly 30% of them are women.

Marking the opening of Singapore’s legal year 2019 this week, Chief Justice Surandesh Menon appoints new Special Counsel and welcomes Lord Mance as an international judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court.

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